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Even using WPA2-PSK you need a 64 hex character key to minimise the risk from rainbow table attacks (GRC generator). A few worldly wise people I know just leave their network wide open as they reckon it would be a lot easier to show no security than demonstrate that someone using rainbow tables and enough time had hacked into their system. Twisted logic I know, but I can see where they are coming from! (This is illegal in Germany as it stuffs up monitoring by their security services.)
There is always Forumite!
Steve USB A with no other description is in fact the old ‘Big’ USB. It normally has a male or female descriptor.
Unfortunately there is not much chance of things changing as those in charge of the country are technically and scientifically illiterate. (never mind the Grade D GCSE maths of the likes of Diane Abbot – who I’m sure has lots of soul mates in Parliament).
Apparently the flaw is MUCH worse than thought, and may have allowed people other than GCHQ/NSA to go trawling through major Enterprise servers. I guess the problem could have been passed on to any PC/laptop that logged on to one of these large Enterprises.
As no such accesses are logged it is impossible to separate commercial white hat spying from black hat stealing. I suspect that black-hat usage was not insignificant as Intel micro code flaws/backdoors have been talked about for years. Normally I will admit discussion of such flaws has been in the Edward Snowdon ‘brick any computer’ category, so any Black Hat hacks/exploits will have been very strictly sub-rosa and in the ‘very expensive/valuable’ categories. Probably only targeted laptops belonging to Governments Banks and organizations like SWIFT will have been affected. (e.g. divert money from any financial account to multitudes of your accounts based in Caymen Islands etc.)
Thanks for the wiki link. I always wondered how Panasonic got away with calling their totally non-standard (and easily lost) camera charger. a mini usb charger Now I know!
The most important thing for a tablet charger is its amperage. Phone chargers do not have the oomph you need close to 3 amps. I use one of these as it has overcharge safety cut-outs etc. Inspect the various pics on the Amazon site and you will see a diagram showing which charger outlet is appropriate for which load. Over charge protection is important if you are in the habit of charging overnight.
If you do not use virtual machines then Ryzen may be worth a look. Reportedly its multi-core multi-threaded setup works well with rendering.
link (multi-threaded benchmarks towards the end)
I’m giving Ryzen serious consideration, but it is dead in the water for me at present as a result of its ‘pink screen of death’ when running hypervissors under smp.
[edit] VMWare say they are working on a fix for their next release (year end) of VMWare Workstation ESXi – unfortunately that will cost as much+ as Ryzen saves so it really needs AMD to fix their problems!
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Drop a note to the Brum Music Archive, give them some background on the tape and ask them what would be the best way of handling it to make it more available to the general public. They may like a copy for their archives, and then all nasty copyright issues are their headache!
Witcher3 or Skyrim fall into the same sort of open rpg game play as Fallout 4. Witcher3 I find a bit irritating as it pits you against huge odds far too frequently. Imo Skyrim is a better bet for Fallout game play/balance.
When you say that you have completed Fallout 4 -does that include the add-on downloadable content some of which will keep you going for another week or two? Don’t forget to look at the community add-on scenarios some of which are excellent. I only game on a PC (far more content available!) and know that Playstation is not great for add-ons so you would need to do your own research.
Looks like we have a regression in doing <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>underlines</span> etc.
Back on the A?V topic Early this month a report was published by AV-Test that only gave a clean bill of health to Kaspersky, Bit-Defender, and ESET. All the remainder including (surprise surprise) Macrappy and Norton actually had security flaws that would potentially allow direct attacks through the A/V itself!
A bit of data supporting Steve’s last post — NSA revealed that in order to track just 42 people, they had to trawl through 151 MILLION phone call records. (Supposedly they were careful to <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>limit</span> the scope of their trawling in order to comply with US law). I suspect that for the reasons given by Steve, GCHQ similarly has to snoop on 50 million UK phone records to track a similarly small number of UK terrorist suspects. I wonder what percent of GCHQ’s time is in consequence wasted by ‘PPI’ irritants!
The problem here is one of enforcement – when in the job I hated those who parked blocking pavements – not only for pedestrians, the blind people but also for mothers with prams. Unfortunately these days it is a rare event to see a proper PC on the streets, the PCSOs are a waste of space – there is simply no enforcement and I do sometime wonder if many who now don the uniform understand life for others. Recently on my estate two sets of PCSOs were walking along the pavement – I was outside yet not one stopped to have a chat or to say ‘hello’ – on one occasion I had our black kitten on a lead in the front – surely a topic to stop and ask????????????? No – a simple smile and with hands deep in pockets walked on – not bad for a summer’s day I thought! You can ask/demand/get as much legislation as you want – it’s 100% useless unless it is enforced. To be honest these days I keep on seeing numerous people/causes etc all shouting for greater penalties for this that and the other – yet the recent increase in speeding fines will be a great benefit to HM Treasury coffers – money to be made – nothing to be made with so many small matters that daily impinge the lives of so many people.
Blame TBLiar for the lack of enforcement as well as May’s efforts as Home Secretary to sabotage the Police by removing uniformed police and instituting the ridiculous Police & Crime Commissioner money waster.
In many cases parking offences have been removed from Police oversight and the responsibility given to local councils. While I agree that pavement parking should be handled by the police they no longer have the resources and the local ‘Parking Enforcement Officer’ is supposed to handle it. I know of at least one town of 35000 people that does not have a singled uniformed policeman assigned to it. Although the arithmetically challenged and walking disaster Diane Abbott ruined her point, Labour policies in respect of a greater police presence do make a lot of sense.
Kaspersky has my vote. A big plus is that it is NSA/GCHQ independent, so it is more likely to detect some of the Government released malware – Norton et al turn a deliberate blind-eye to such zero days and are known to work closely with Government agencies. On the other hand Kaspersky probably opens you up to KGB attack, but that is much less likely to happen!
AVTest shows that with a few exceptions that AVs are much of a muchness. I opt for the one that generally has a better track record of not borking pcs (this rules out Mcrappy and Norton)
Thanks for trying Lee. Much better at the moment!
The worst teachers are actually those who know their subject inside-out and have forgotten the baby-steps that are sometimes necessary to gain understanding. Conversely the best teachers are often those who have some difficulties with their subject and only really know the baby-steps!
There is a world of difference between lecturing and teaching, and in this context Profs are often the worst teachers of the lot, as their main role in any Uni is to guide and lead the post-grad researchers. Often their ‘teaching’ is just to say “Read my book pages 75 through 120 then work your way through these questions!”.
Been there and somehow survived.
My guess is that they just hard-coded the DNS address into Edge, or the phone-home address is still sitting in the DNS cache.
I THINK that using BT Wifi on a smart phone outside your home is not linked to having a BT Modem, but instead is linked to the BT broadband account and your log-in to that. I vaguely remember trying to set up BT wifi away from my house. I failed, but only because I could not remember my BT logon password.
I do know that log-on from a working home wifi is pretty much automatic so I cannot test my memory over this.
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